Programming doesn't belong to men (it belongs to me)

One thing I’ve noticed since I started writing this blog is that I’ll
get comments like these on my posts: (all these people are talking about
me)

He’s only using the -Ofast gcc option, I wonder what he would get with
-march=native -mtune=native which allows the compiler to use more
instructions.

But more interestingly, why is he studying the amalgated C file
instead of, you know, the sources?

I think he talks about the actual .db file?

How would each machine/core’s counts know when they are done? If he
wants a max of a million counts wouldn’t each machine have to check
the counts of each other machine before continuing?

If you change the OP’s problem to summing a vector of floating point
numbers, then even the way he has coded it there will still be
differences from run to run.

One thing he doesn’t mention is the fear of looking stupid.

When this happens, when people implicitly assume that a Technical Thing
On The Internet must be written by a man, I find it confusing. I didn’t
grow up with the idea that I was worse at math or programming than the
men around me (because, well, I wasn’t!) And I didn’t grow up with the
idea that it was weird for me to write programs (why would it be?). And
a huge number of the programmers I know and respect are women.

So the idea that programmers are all men or that programming is for men
or that an article about the Linux kernel is probably written by a man
just seems… silly to me. I feel like the community belongs to me,
and like I’m a part of it.

And when people who have more power push marginalized people out of
tech, I think, who do you think you are? Why do you think this belongs
to you, and that you have the right to say who can come and who can’t?

Programming doesn’t belong to men, or to people who went to MIT, or to
white people, or to English-speakers, or to Linux users, or to C
programmers, or to people with CS degrees, or to people who are
self-taught, or to people who can see, or to people who had easy access
to computers when they were young. If you write programs, it belongs to
you.